Social Media

What Men and Women Really Want, According to Social Media [INFOGRAPHIC]

As a fully-licensed and accredited man, I am wholly unqualified to discuss what women want or care about. That's what social data is for.

Social media monitoring company NetBase analyzed a year's worth of online conversations — 27 billion, to be exact. Using natural language processing, they parsed English grammar and gender voice in search of phrases like "I want X." The data was then analyzed for sentiment, and condensed into a top 10 list for each sex. The fascinating results have been compiled in the punchy inforgraphic below.

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